this November 2006

issue

NLDS' Bigelow moving

nto space, p. 11.

Calendar, p. 6.

Update on alleged dis-

covery and sonar scans of
Kinross F-89C, p. 6.

Wendy Connors'
Faded Discs project, p. 10.

NSA affidavit sketchy

on UFO information, p.
12.

Mothman associate
producer dead at 42, p. 13.
.....-.. . . . . .
Object appears to enter This drawing of a strange
lake, p. 13. creature..wbich looks very little
...................
like the typical blien was done
Former FAA official by a 16-year-old North Dakota
..............
says UFO was seen, p. 17, witness d o says he shot one of
these entities, who were stealing
Columns a hog. ~

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 Hgh strangeness encounter in coma1
includes reported shootmg of entity
By Richard Moss
Minnesota MUFON State Director
and Lorna Hunter
Field InvestigatorlPhotographer
During the early morning hours of
Sept. 11,2006, a high-strangeness en-
counter occurred in central North Da-
kota.
The witness is the same young man
who observed a landed triangle on adja-
cent property in April when he was in
a pasture checking on cattle during calv-
ing time. (September. 2006. MUFON
U F O Joi~nzal.)
When we arrived at the farm we
were met by four barking dogs ranging
in size from a small tenier to an almost-
blind Saint Bernard. It is important to
note that none of these dogs barked or
showed any awareness of what was
happening nearby during the events
which will be described.
The witness. age 16,sfeet 11inches The damaged sheets of corrugated metal may have been displaced
I tall, and weighing about 200 pounds, by the entities.
described in an initial interview what
he recalled from the incident: ral, he saw two figures apparently try- toward the witness, picked him up by
He said he woke up some time after ing to steal a 400-lb pregnant sow. his shirt, and, with one arm, threw him
midnight on Sept. 11, and went to a One of them scooped up the sow backwards about 20 feet.
bathroom downstairs to get a drink of with one arm, transferred it to its other The youth landed on his back, and,
water. Looking out a window he no- arm, and tossed it to the second figure. while on the ground, heard a sort of
ticed two figures enter a corral where In the moonlight the witness sud- "boom sound." He sat up, reloaded the
four pigs were kept. denly realized that the figures were not rifle and looked around for the entities,
Thinking they were deer about to eat "ordinary people" and quickly became but they were nowhere to be seen.
some hog feed that had been set out for frightened and confused, as they were Two vertical sheets of corrugated
the morning feeding, he put on shoes extremely tall, perhaps seven or eight metal on the west side of the corral had
and a jacket and grabbed a .22-cal feet in height. been knocked off, possibly providing a
single-shot rifle from the shop on his He fired a shot from his rifle into the means of escape. If the entities were
way to the corral. left side of the entity that had caught responsible, it would explain this loud
His intent. was to scare away the the sow and was close enough that he sound.
deer. The north, west, and part of the felt sure he hit it. He immediately heard In the past, some aliens have been
south side of the corral are covered with a loud screeching, squealing weird described as levitating or floating from
ten-foot-long galvanized corrugated sound. place to place. Readers might wonder,
1 metal sheets attached vertically to At the time of the interview we as we do, why they didn't just levitate
wooden fencing in order to create a thought that he might have accidentally over the windbreak to make their es-
windbreak. shot the sow. Or, maybe was terrified cape, instead of apparently knocking
I
The youth approached the corral at what was happening. down part of it.
t
I from the south, behind the windbreak. Then the entity that had thrown the The witness got up and ran to a
Upon jumping the fence into the cor- pig to the other one swiftly "floated" nearby mobile home occupied by his
November 2006 MUFON UFO Journal 3
sister, declaring, "They took her, they
took her, and I couldn't stop them."
His shirt was tom, and he had two
small scratches on his chest. In his agi-
tated state he admitted that he was
scared and couldn't tell the story
straight.
They called his father at 2:04 AM,
as recorded on his cell phone, who
eventually called the sheriff. who re-
sponded with deputies. The sheriff and
his deputies were reluctant to go into
the wooded area to the west and north
of the corral, but they returned after
daybreak and did some searching.
Nothing was found.
According to the website Complete
Sun and Moon Data for One Day the
moon was 79% illuminated and had
risen at 9:38 PM.
A call to the National Weather Ser-
vice in Bismarck indicated that both
high and low clouds, arriving from dif-
ferent directions, should have been over
the area within the time frame of the
experience.
The boy's father said that the sky was
clear immediately after 2:04 AM, but
that heavy low clouds and fog arrived
shortly thereafter. Whether the sky was
clear or a thin veil of high clouds were
overhead, there apparently was enough
moonlight to be able to see fairly well.
During a re-enactment we deter-
mined that the entities were about 12
feet apart when the sow was tossed
from one to the other. It was also close
to twelve feet between the entity that
caught the pig and the opening in the
windbreak.
Most of the nails that had fastened
the sheet metal to the wooden boards
were still in the boards, but a few had
come out with the metal and were in
the corrugated sheets.
There were fresh scrapes and
scratches on one of the horizontal fence
boards. We saw no signs of blood or
liquids on the boards.
There were no signs of a bullet hole
or scratches on either of the downed
metal sheets which would have been
in the line of fire if he had missed the
entity.
Whether the .22 caliber bullet en-
tered or bounced off of the entity, a
4 MUFON UFO Journal
The witness' shirt was reportedly
torn by one of the entities. (A white
background was inserted into the
shirt to make the tears more visible.)
"squeal" from this creature indicates
that it must have had something akin to
a nervous system that created pain
when it was hit by the small bullet.
Although we could see no signs of
any liquids (alien's or hog's blood) on
the soil, a shovel was used to trace out
a semicircle next to where the shot-at-
alien had stood, and surface soil was
collected into a galvanized utility pail
for possible later analysis.
In retrospect,' this might not have
been a wise thing to do. If we had seen
a spot on the soil that could have been
alien blood we would have asked the
sheriff to call in experts who are used
to handling such materials.
Over time, additional conscious
memories occurred, and as the witness
retold the story, more adjectives were
added to his description of the aliens.
They were described as being seven
to eight feet tall, dark-skinned, narrow,
thin, skinny, long, lanky, and strong.
They had large glossy eyes and rounded
heads with something around the
temples resembling bolts.
(See sketch by witness on front
cover.)
No clothing was noticed, other than
it must have been of a dark color. No
legs or feet were seen. but he described
their movements in terms of floating,
levitating. graceful yet mechanical, no
wasted movements, and no emotions.
The witness lamented that the only
evidence he has is his tom shirt, a dam-
aged corral. and a missing hog. They
later searched a wide area. but did not
find their animal.
A form letter was mailed to every
county sheriff in North Dakota request-
ing a phone call or email if anyone in
the state reported finding a 400-lb mu-
tilated black hog having "white socks."
But if it did end up being taken into
a craft, it obviously could have been
dropped over a state other than North
Dakota. As of this date, 23 days after
the event, a possibly mutilated hog has
not been reported.
If we do get a report, we will go
wherever it is located to verify that it is
the missing animal and photograph it
for publication.
The results of an interview are not
always exactly confirmed by using hyp-
notic regression, and this proved to be
true in this case.
If people find themselves in a short-
lived and terrifying situation (for ex-
ample, being a witness to an armed and
violent bank robbery) they can be ex-
pected to give varying descriptions of
what happened and what the robbers
looked like.
The witness who confronted the en-
tities likewise found himself in a short-
duration event that was frightening.
What follows are the results of a re-
gression done by Craig Lang on Sept.
16,only five days following the encoun-
ter.
The regression
Craig R. Lang, MS CHt
Certified Hypnotherapist and Field
Investigator, Minnesota MUFON
Initially Dick and Loma had visited
the farm shortly after the encounter and
interviewed the witness and his family.
The account emerged which is summa-
rized above. .
As I listened to this narration, sev-
eral key points in the account struck me
November 2006

Scratches on witness' chest were reportedly received when the youth
was grabbed by an entity with fishook-type fingers (sketch by witness).
as extremely suggestive of an abduc-
tion.
1. The witness had had at least one
other UFO sighting, observing a landed
UFO at close range. In addition, there
had been a possible cattle mutilation
near the property a year before. All of
these suggested that he and the family
had had some possibly hidden interac-
tion with the phenomenon.
2. The witness had initially thought
that the figures in the corral were deer,
which he assumed were after the pig
feed. Often a screen memory of alien
beings can appear as a deer [See Budd
Hopkins, Missing Time].
3. The witness had instinctively
grabbed his gun before he headed for
the corral. I wondered if this instinc-
tive reaction might be due to some un-
derlying interactions with the phenom-
enon.
4. The beings appeared to be unlike
any I had heard of before. The witness
described them as about 7 feet tall,
floating over the ground and moving
with a gliding motion.
5. When the one being threw the
witness, his memory of the event dis-
continued. This suggested missing time
and a possible abduction.
November 2006
On Saturday, 9/16, Dick, Lorna, and
I drove to the family farm to interview
them once again and to conduct a hyp-
notic regression with the witness.
I again interviewed him, as well as
his father and mother. The account that
Dick and Lorna described in their ear-
lier article emerged in detail. The ac-
count was as consistent as it was mys-
terious.
I also asked the witness many ques-
tions about other aspects of life. The
picture which emerged was one of a
quiet, confident, sensible young man,
not given to fantasy and having very
little tendency for self-reflection.
He described himself as being very
protective. He is also very muscular
and extremely physically fit. I sensed
that he would be formidable in any con-
frontation, with either humans or aliens.
He had not had any experience with
either hypnosis or meditation, but he did
daydream frequently. I explained to
him that one could think of hypnosis as
being similar to daydreaming, and that
he would have full control of his
thoughts at all times. He was very at is a biographical memory of an actual
home with this, and turned out to be an event.
excellent hypnotic subject.
I took him into trance, spending a emerged under hypnosis differed from
MUFON UFO Journal
long time deepening his hypnotic state
and putting his mind at ease.
We then conducted the preliminar-
ies of a close encounter regression. in-
cluding establishing a safe place and
finding any mentaVemotionaVspiritual
resources which could be used if
needed.
Once the preliminaries were com-
plete. with the witness in deep trance,
we then went back to the time of the
encounter. Initially, he began to re-ex-
perience the encounter as nearly iden-
tical to his description during his ear-
lier interviews.
Using the present tense. he described
himself awakening. looking out of the
bathroom window, and seeing the fig-
ures in the corral. He re-experienced
the events of going out to the shed to
get his gun and proceeding to the cor-
ral.
It emerged that taking a gun is largely
standard procedure in such a circum-
stance. Thus, my initial speculation
that this implied anything special about
his relationship with the phenomenon
appeared to be incorrect.
The witness then re-experienced
looking into the corral. However, in-
stead of seeing two beings, he saw
three-then four beings.
He vaulted-over the fence, brought
his gun to bear, and fired at the nearest
being. He then looked down to reload
his gun. As he was doing this he no
longer had the beings in his sight.
While he was looking down, he felt
something grab him from behind, to his
right. The being grabbed his front and.
side, spinning him around and casting
him to the ground.
He felt his head hit the ground, ap-
parently knocking him briefly uncon-
scious. When he awoke, the beings and
one of the hogs were gone.
With the witness in deep trance, we
conducted several passes through the
events. Each time a stable, consistent
account emerged. Each pass added
detail that was consistent with previ-
ous passes. Therefore I believe that this
Several aspects of the account that
 that which the witness described dur-
ing the earlier interviews:
1. There were at least four beings in
the corral.
2. During the interview, he stated that
one of the beings was holding one of
the hogs, which appeared to be very
much alive. However, once under hyp-
nosis, he described how the hog was
lifeless and how two of the beings were
attempting to remove it from the cor-
ral.
3. The description of the beings was
slightly different during hypnotic recall
than in the original interviews. The
witness indicated that he could not
clearly see the feet, so it was not clear
how far off the ground they were float-'
ing. Thus, it is not clear how tall the
beings actually were. However, the
gliding motion appears to be consistent
in all of his descriptions.
4. During the initial interviews, he
described how the one being floated
over to him and grabbed his shirt,
throwing him backwards at least one
body-length. However, once in trance,
Evan described how a being grabbed
him from behind and cast him to the
ground.
5. The witness described getting a
sense of fear from the other beings once
the first one had been shot. He de-
scribed what might have been an em-
pathic telepathy between the beings and
himself, with them indicating some-
thing like "we mean you no harm...",
6. His next memory was of sitting
up, reaching for his gun, and looking
around for the beings. They were gone,
along with the hog.
7. He had noticed only the beings in
the corral. There was no indication of
a vehicle (presumably a UFO) in the
area.
We concluded our hypnosis session
with a few suggestions for emotional
well-being. I also suggested that he
I
could allow any other remaining memo- 928-204-1955.
ries to emerge, with which he would
be comfortable.
I asked him what his emotions were
toward them now, to which he replied,
"I hate them." He does not appear trau-
matized from the event, although it has
I left both him and his family with quite
6 MUFON UFO Journal
a shock to their personal world-views.
It does not appear that any abduc- Update on alleged
tion occurred. The missing time ap-
pears to be due to his head striking the sonar scans of
ground, causing a brief moment of un-
~on~~io~sne~~.
What happened in that corral in
missing F-89C
North Dakota in the wee hours of 91111 By James Carrion
06? Did this witness simply discover- MUFON Internatiomal Director
and attempt to intercept-a group of be- There have been a few new devel-
ings stealing a farm animal? opments in the Kinross missing F89C
Perhaps this is the case, with littlecase since last month's extensive report
existing beyond this. Yet the family hasin the Journal, none of which add to
a history of UFO sightings, and we the legitimacy of the claim that the air-
must again recall that there had been a craft has been located.
possible cattle mutilation near this lo- The recent statement by the "Great
cation a year earlier. Lakes Dive Company" (GLDC) to
Thus, the hog-taking event may be have found the U.S. Air Force F89C
part of a larger pattern associated withScorpion Jet that disappeared in 1953
that farm. over Lake Superior while in pursuit of
Ultimately, we don't know any fur- a UFO has created quite a stir of ex-
ther details of what went on that night.citement in the UFO community.
Nor do we know the beings' purpose The claim was especially intriguing
in being there. We know only that it is when the GLDC added the statement
one more piece of a puzzle that gets that a "mystery object" was found just
stranger with every turn. - over 200 feet from the plane.
The object supposedly had markings
- ->vr,
- -- - - - - - - $ - -,
- -
on it which matched damage to the
d-~-,
;
&
plane.
NOV.10-12-UFO Crash ~ e t r i e d MUFON's in-depth investigation of
Conference, Las Vegas, NV, featuring the case began with attempting to an-
Stanton Friedman, Dr. Michael Salla, swer the basic questions-Is GLDC a
Richard Dolan, Paul Schatzkin, Ryan valid company? Who are the principals
Wood, Michael Lindemann, Peter Mer- of the company? What is their corpo-
lin, George Knapp, Dr. Robert M. rate history?
Wood, Nick Redfern, Frank Feschino, Since GLDC claimed to be a Michi-
Linda Moulton Howe, Dr. Bruce gan-based corporation, our inquiry be-
Maccabee, and Matthew E. Thuney; gan with a telephone call to the Michi-
www.ufoconference.com, 720-887- gan Division of Corporations, which did
8171. not have any record of a company in-
Nov. 17-20-Crop Circles & Keys to corporated under or operating under the
Higher Consciousness, Tempe, AZ, fea- name "Great Lakes Dive Company."
turing J.J. Hurtak, Russell Targ, Will- When GLDC spokesperson Adam
iam Henry, Jim Marrs, Linda Moulton Jimenez was questioned about this, he
Howe, Francine Blake, Nancy Talbott, said in an email sent on Sept. 19,2006:
Flordemayo, Philip Gardiner, Bert "GLDC is in the process of
Janssen, Heather Clewett, & Chet & switching from an incorporated
Kallista Snow. www.chetsnow.com, company to an LLC organization.
We began asjust a group of divers
Dec. 1->National UFO Conference, who would get together with our
San Diego, C A , 858-523-1068, sonar equipment and sweep loca-
www.nufoc.org. tions in the Great Lakes. As it
Feb. 25-March 2, 2007-Interna- became apparent that we would
tional UFO Congress Conference & need to develop a business entity
Film Festival, Laughlin, NV, 303-651- to interact with museums, obtain
7136, www.ufocongress.com. grants etc, we formed a company
November 2006
 early on. Once the group
downsized and became more fo-
cused with regards to who was in-
volved. the main group members
decided to form GLDC LLC. to
better manage the direction of the
company. This entity is still pend-
ing, and not yet available to pub-
lic records."
However, in an earlier email sent on
Sept. 6,2006, to MUFON investigator
David Watson. Jimenez contradicted
his later statement by saying:
"Incidentally our company
name is Great Lakes Dive Com-
pany (noi Inc.; we are technically
an LLC. (just for accuracy sake).
We are in the process of putting
together a "formal" office. and
will give you the mailing address
when available."
Jimenez also refused to reveal who
the principals of the company were, the
company's operating structure, or the Alleged sonar scan of the F-89C Air Force fighter which disappeared
types of marine vessels used in their after merging with an unknown object over Luke Superior. The scan,
search, citing recent security threats which supposedly shows the plane on the ,lake's bottom, may be a fake.
made against them.
When asked about the nature of these were made. bad news. The Canadian govern-
threats, Jimenez stated: When MUFON tried to trace either ment refused to allow us to use
"Threats were made regarding phone number through Intelius.com, our ROV at the wreck site with-
the salvage of the object, essen- both phone numbers proved to be un- out first providing them the GPS
tially 'tell us where it's at or traceable. coordinates of the site and allow
else ...' The individuals repre- Since trying to confirm GLDC's cor- either a Coast Guard escort or
sented themselves as producers porate identity led to a dead end, government official to accompany
for the Discovery Channel. MUFON then attempted to corroborate the expedition.
"We made a few calls, found some of the other claims made by "We were stuck, we don't want
out the group was fraudulent and GLDC. to give up the site (especially be-
told them we no longer were in- Jimenez claimed that GLDC was cause of the object, and it's po-
terested in any future dealings founded in 2001 for the purpose of ship- tentially huge ~ i ~ c a n cbut
e )we
with them...that's when the threats wreck exploration and discovery, and need to stay on the good side of
started. with the goal of solving the enduring the Canadians due to our Gunilda
"As a security we mysteries of lost vessels in Lake Supe- project which involves a lot of
changed all phone numbers asso- rior. other contributors."
ciated with GLDC and have not In addition to the F-89 find, GLDC MUFON contacted the Ontario Min-
included any company or personal claimed that they were searching for the istry of Culture and spoke with Michael
information (like background info French minesweepers Cerisoles and Johnson, manager of the ministry's
on the team) on any interviews. Inkermann, and that they were inter- Heritage Operations Unit, whose office
Until this situation (returning to ested in filming in high definition the issues work permits for survey or ex-
the object) is resolved we will not wreck of the Gunilda. ploration work in Lake Superior.
be providing any further informa- Jimenez was quoted in an Aug. 29, Johnson told MUFON that no one
tion on the project or the team." 2006 article in the American Chronicle: had requested a permit for exploring
MUFON later discovered that "2006 began as an ambitious or surveying the F-89 jet or "mystery
Jimenez had provided a cell phone project season for us, we were object," nor had his office received any
number to various film makers and re- looking forward to further work related correspondence.
searchers, but switched to a new cell at the F-89 site," said Jimenez. He Johnson further stated that the Min-
phone number soon after the threats added, "Then we received soine istry would not require a-coast guard
November 2006 MUFON UFO Journal 7
vessel or government official to accom-
pany any expedition, but would allow
the licensee to work under their own
cognizance.
He added that the wreck's GPS co-
ordinates did not have to be provided
up front as long as they were included
in a final survey report.
On Coast to Coast with George
Noory, Linda Moulton Howe played an
interview she recorded with Jimenez
where he stated that Canada automati-
cally claims ownership of any wrecks
in Canadian temtorial waters.
However, Mr. Putt from the office
of the Ontario Receiver of Wrecks told
MUFON that the original owner of the
wreck (ship, plane, etc.) maintains
ownership and would have to grant sal-
vage permission-the F-89 would there-
fore still be considered U.S. Air Force
property.
Putt elaborated by stating that if a
wreck's owner is not known, which This alleged sonar scan of the reported "mystery object" not far from
would possibly'be the case for the the alleged location of the F-89C features added circles showing the ob-
"mystery object," then the Ontario Pro- ject and a groove in the lake bottom leading to the object. The area in the
vincial Government would become the lower right was reportedly blacked out to hide the location statistics.
custodian for a year, and if the original
owner could not be found, then the organization has been actively search- looked to him like genuine side scan
Ontario Receiver of Wrecks could sell ing for the Cerisoles and Inkermann. sonar images, they could have been fab-
it to the salvor or to the public. Farnquist heard of GLDC's F-89 ricated by a dedicated person.
In the same Coast to Coast interview, claims from a local newspaper article, In the July-August, 2006, issue of
Linda Moulton Howe stated that but had not heard of any of their other the Journal of UFO History,editor
Jimenez graduated in 1990 from exploration work. Dick Hall writes:
Kettering Technical School (run by The Soo Evening News wrote an ar- "In answer to questions from editor,
General Motors) with a degree in com- ticle on GLDC's claims, and mistak- Adam Jimenez of Great Lakes Dive
puter engineering. enly attributed the F-89 find to the Company said that they had not yet
MUFON contacted the registrar's Great Lakes Diving Company of Rock- found any positive identification such
office at Kettering University (which ford, MI. as a serial number" (on the F-89).
had changed its name in 1998), and MUFON verified with the Rockford However, in a Sept. 11,2006, email
Becky Ibbotson, registrar assistant, re- company owner that his company has to me, Jimenez contradicted this state-
lated that no one by the n e e of Adam no connection with GLDC. ment to Dick Hall by saying:
Jimenez had ever attended Kettering. MUFON sent copies of GLDC's F- "The ROV confirmed that the
Giving GLDC the benefit of the 89 side scan sonar images to the Woods canopy is intact, but we were un-
doubt, MUFON posted messages to the Hole Oceanographic Institution, and a able to see inside due to silt and
public message boards on Woods Hole scientist, who wishes to the translucent nature of the
Scubaboard.com asking if anyone from remain anonymous, offered his profes- canopy. One would assume the
the Ontario dive community knew sional opinion that they do not appear crew is still inside.
GLDC or of any of the exploration to be side scan sonar images, but pho- "Yes the aircraft tail number is
work they had performed prior to 2006. tographs that were altered with com- visible on the F-89c ...this is how
After hundreds of viewings, no one puter software to look like side scan we were able to c o n f m that we
could provide any information to shed sonar images. had found the actual F-89 and not
light on GLDC's claims. MUFON also contacted a professor some other aircraft."
MUFON also contacted Tom at Michigan Tech University, who also Although stating that GLDC could
Farnquist, CEO of the Great Lakes wishes to remain anonymous, who not get permission to use the 'ROV in
Shipwreck Historical Society, whose stated that although the GLDC images 2006 without unacceptable restrictions,
8 MUFON UFO Journal November 2006
Jimenez said that they did use it in
2005, apparently without the permis-
sion he has claimed is necessary:
"We did lower the ROV on the
initial discovery (because we
knew the risk existed that we may
not be able to return to the site).
We haven't been able to use the
ROV on the site since (or return
to the site at all for that matter)
this season ...we had hoped to use
the ROV to further explore the
site in 2006.
"Weather issues in 2005 pre-
vented us from thoroughly explor-
ing the wreck(s). The confusion
is that the accounts are talking
about two different dive seasons."
Elaborating on the supposed discov-
ery, Jiminez said that GLDC wanted
to check for radiation at the wreck site
because something was affecting their
equipment:
"We used a DX-1 hand held
Geiger counter that was placed
into a sealed chamber within the
ROV and the speaker output was
patched into the audio input of the
digital camera on the ROV.
"We had to get the ROV close
to the object to make sure the
reading was accurate.. .however
the efficiency rating of the DX-1
is not loo%, but we were satis-
fied that it was not radiation caus-
ing our electronic problems. We
made the metallic determination
based on visual evidence from the
ROV."
Jimenez's statement thus alludes to
GLDC illegally operating their ROV in
Canadian waters without a properly is-
sued license, and contradicts his previ-
ous assertion that "we need to stay on
the good side of the Canadians due to
our Gunilda project."
It is not clear as to how the Geiger
counter was "patched to the audio-in-
put on the ROV's camera, as DX-1
Geiger counters do not have an audio-
out jack, but only an internal speaker.
MUFON then investigated how and
when GLDC's claims were first made
public.
The earliest known account
MUFON could find was an Aug. 22,
November 2006
2006, posting to the UFO Updates
mailing list where a certain "Preston
Miller" forwarded what was labeled a
Port Huron, MI. Associated Press (AP)
news article on GLDC's claims to
Francis Ridge.
Ridge told MUFON that he does not
know who Preston Miller is. Checking
with the Port Huron Times Herald, an
authorized AP news source in Port
Huron, managing editor Judith
McClean told MUFON that her news-
paper did not originate the article.
MUFON also contacted the Associ-
ated.PressMichigan Bureau in Detroit
and spoke with Joe Altman.
Altman looked at the UFO Update
article online and said that it was not
written in the characteristic style of an
AP press report, as it lacked any date
references.
Altman also searched all AP news
feeds and could not find any informa-
tion that would indicate AP was the
source for the article.
On Sept. 26, GLDC's web site con-
tent at www.greatlakesdive.com was
removed, and is no longer available. A
week later, the GLDC message board
that was hosted by excoboard.com was
also unavailable.
Performing an Internet Whois query
of the greatlakesdive.com Internet do-
main name revealed that the domain
name registrar is ~ e l b b u r n eIT Ltd, a
company based in Australia.
Thinking that GLDC's claims may
be related to the recent Australian UFO
wave videos that were revealed to be a
hoax, MUFON contacted the UFO
wave perpetrator, Chris Kentworthy,
who denied any involvement or knowl-
edge of GLDC.
Searching the Internet revealed vari-
ous security bulletins warning that
some fraudulent web sites use this same
Melbourne IT Ltd registrar and the re-
lated myprivateregistration.com ser-
vice.
Jimenez is currently not responding
to emails or phone calls.
In summary, MUFON, after many
hours of investigation by a number of
our dedicated field investigators, has
not been able to substantiate any of
GLDC's claims. Until GLDC person-
MUFON UFO Journal
nel resurface with more information
and definithe proof of the F-89 discov-
ery, their claims remain doubtful at this
time. MUFON will continue its inves-
tigation and update our readers as fur-
ther developments unfold.
Scientists discover
that solids can
pass through solids
In hundreds of abduction cases, the
experiencers report being moved
through walls and other solid objects.
Many people have discounted their tes-
timony, calling it "impossible."
However, that opinion is now being
challenged. Moses Chan and his asso-
ciates at Pennsylvania State University
have created the world's first
"supersolids," bizarre crystals that slide
through each other like ghosts.
It is a finding that promises to revo-
lutionize the way we think about mat-
ter. "It really changes one's concepts
of solids," says Jason Ho, a solid-state
theorist at Ohio State University in
Columbus.
According to the researchers, solids
get their reassuring rigidness from the
orderly way their atoms are arranged.
Unlike liquids and gases, the atoms in
a crystal zire fixed, a bit like the squares
on a checkerboard.
While they may quiver a little due to
their thermal energy, this normally isn't
enough to dislodge the atoms and cause
them to flow over each other.
In some crystals, the bonds between
atoms are weak and an atom may break
free. This leaves the crystal latticework
full of gaps called "zero-point vacan-
cies," and these vacancies are mobile.
Scientiststhink these vacancies have
energy and mass just as atoms do.
-New Scientist magazine
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Planned giving can be beneficial
both to MUFON and to your own tax
and estate situation. Please contact
MUFON headquakters for details.
Wendy Connors' Faded Discs project
preserves the voices of ufology's past
. By Dwight Connelly
Journal editor
While MUFON is justifiably proud
of our Pandora Project, which is mak-
ing thousands of UFO cases available
to researchers. it's not the only game in
town.
Wendy Connors is taking a different
approach: an audio UFO history pres-
ervation project which she calls Faded
Discs, covering the period from 1947
to 1973.
"I started the project in 2002." she
explains, "when it became apparent that
digitization would be the future of au-
dio, and that the beginning of the MP3
format would allow huge amounts of
recordings to be archived on comput-
ers and downloaded as needed for re-
search-or just plain entertainment."
The problem, she says, was that his-
torical recordings of key personalities
and important cases were scattered
"from pillar to post."
In addition, they were usually in ob-
solete formats, such as reel-to-reel, cas-
sette, LPs, wire recordings, electrical
transcription discs, and even 8-tracks.
Wendy decided that two things had
to be done. First, the technological
devices required to utilize the various
formats had to be obtained so that the
recordings could be transferred to CDs.
When word got out that the project
was being organized, various research-
ers chipped in to fund the purchase of
equipment.
The second thing which had to be
done, of course, was to obtain the re-
cordings. Once again researchers
pitched in to locate key recordings,
some from basements, some from at-
tics, and some from personal files.
"It does not take too much imagina-
tion to realize just how much some of
the recordings had deteriorated," says
Wendy. "It has been a long and ardu-
ous undertaking."
Some of the recordings restored
10
"magnificantly," but others challenged
even the best software, ranging from
extremely poor to very good.
"This may sound like an interesting
undertaking,"
explains
Wendy, "and
for at least
some of the
time it is. But
the vast amount
of work in-
volved is ex-
tremely time
consuming,
Wendy Connors and ends up
being just plain
-grunt work."
She notes that each recording is usu-
ally listened to a mi&um of five times
before it is completed. "If it is a very
rare recording," she explains, "I will
spend many days attempting to restore
it to the best possible condition."
But since the idea of the project is to
preserve as much of the older material
as quickly as possible, she tries not to
spend too much time on most record-
ings.
Although the project is not profit ori-
ented, funding is still crucial. "It's an
expensive undertaking," says Wendy.
"For example, parts for a wire re-
corder from the 1940s are certainly not
on the shelf at Circuit City, and usually
have to either be taken from another
machine or hand made. On top of that,
finding people who can repair ex-
tremely old equipment is not as easy as
one would think."
But hearing the actual voices of
George Adamski, Betty & Barney Hill,
Kenneth Arnold, Edward Condon,
Frank Edwards, J. Allen Hynek,
Donald Keyhoe, and all the others as
they -discuss cases makes the effort
more than worthwhile.
In addition to audio recordings,
Wendy has also amassed a significant
MUFON UFO Journal
collection of photos of individuals on
CD ROM.
When people order the recordings or
photos, they are donating to a project
which makes a formerly hidden side of
ufology available to researchers.
"Besides providing research mate-
rial," says Wendy, "these recordings
offer those who have become bored
with the genre of ufological research the
opportunity to once again find the ex-
citement that these recordings provide.
It's win-win all the way around for both
current and future generations."
Wendy can be contacted regarding
the formats and costs of these research
materials at FadedDiscs@Comcast.net.
She is, of course, also interested if
you have some historical recordings
that are not yet in the Faded Disc ar-
chives. Her website is fadeddiscs.com.
Greenewald marks
ten-year anniversary
Aug. 22,2006, marked a very spe-
cial day for John Greenewald. Exactly
ten years ago on that date, the United
States Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA) sent him a four-page document
that started one of the biggest things in
his life: The Black Vault, one of the
most popular sites on the Internet.
A decade later the Black Vault, at
www.blackvault.com, features 440,000
declassified government documents,
has 30,000 registered users, and con-
tains 400,000 messages on its forum.
Greenwald, who started the Black
Vault at the age of 15, is now also a
producer of documentaries, including
"UFO Files: Texas' Roswell" for the
History Channel, as well as other
projects.
At the recent MUFON International
Symposium, Greenewald discussed his
experiences as a producer, and served
fot the second time as master of cer-
emonies for the eve-nt.
November 2006
 Robert Bigelow moves from NIDS
into space with Genesis-1 module
Robert Bigelow. best known to Jour-
nal readers as the man behind the Na-
tional Institute for Discovery Science
(NIDS), has moved into space.
NLDS, which was active in studying
animal mutilations and other phenom-
ena. has been virtually closed to re-
search since October, 2004, due to what
Bigelow called "a lack of activity" in
the UFOIparanormal field.
He is now the man behind the "Gen-
esis- 1 expandable module now orbit-
ing the Earth. which represents what
one writer calls "entrepreneurial zeal
and private sector spunk."
As a pathfinder demonstrator space-
craft, the Genesis- 1 mission marks the
birth of a long-term vision to build and
orbit space structures for commercial
and public use.
Bigelow, who spent a great deal of
money on the NIDS project, is footing
the bill on this business venture-now
gauged at upwards of a $75 million
outlay.
He is owner of the Budget Suites of
America hotel chain, among other en-
deavors, and is the module mogul of
Bigelow Aerospace in North Las-Ve-
gas, NV.
The July 12 launch of the Genesis-1
atop a Russian and Ukrainian booster
is a step "to transform the dream of a
robust human presence in space into a
. reality," according to Bigelow.
Once in orbit, Genesis-1 took all of
10 minutes to successfully expand to 8
feet (2.4 meters) in diameter.
Bigelow Aerospace is the odds-on-
favorite to create a low-cost, low Earth
orbit space complex that is accessible
to the commercial sector.
Even as Genesis-1 circles the Earth,
work is already underway for a Gen-
esis-2 launch before year's end. That
flight is expected to lead six months
later to lofting a larger, more sophisti-
cated module called Galaxy.
Twice the size of the Genesis- 1 now
November 2006
Haakonstad noted.
Typical of
space systems, he
added. the weak-
est link is the
power system
"and that's no dif-
ferent here.
"What we're
trying to do with
this first spacecraft
is draw attention to
our second space-
craft." Haakon-
stad explained.
Looking a bit
farther into the fu-
ture, Bigelow is
Genesis-1 has been successful orbiting the Earth offering a prize of
$50 million to the
since July, sending back photos and other data.
craft that can ac-
in space, Galaxy will offer 23 cubic complish two successful dockings with
meters of interior volume, carry higher- a planned Space Hotel in 2010.
fidelity systems, and is more in a direct Observations of Genesis-1 had been
path to Bigelow's full-scale kind of reported to the Bigelow website by 65
thinking in terms of ever-larger mod- people as of Oct. 1, mostly in the U.S.,
ules.
He said they are preparing a volley but also in Europe, Brazil, Australia,
of flights to throw at the problem of ex- Canada, and South Africa. ,
pandable module development and use, It has been given the N O R ID ~
number 29252, and its orbit, as well as
not only for low Earth orbit, but also
for utilization on the Moon and Mars. other orbiting objects, can be tracked
Post-launch data of Genesis-1 has by checking at www.opefs.com.
now been analyzed, showing that the
module has 7 to 13 years of lifetime in
orbit, said Eric Haakonstad, Genesis
program manager. UFO Newsclipping
"We are optimistic that we're going
to have quite a long time to collect, not Service
just initial performance data, but long- ~ o n t hcollection
l~ of news sto-
term data as well," he told SPACE.com. ries and features about UFOs and
Haakonstad said the robustness of related phenomena from the
the Genesis- 1 systems are to be closely world's press, including transla-
watched, including the internal and ex- tions.
ternal power hardware, communica-
For a sample copy and addi-
tions systems, and the integrity of the tional information, contact
module's hull structure. UFONS, 2 Caney Valley Drive,
"We want to make sure that it Plumerville, AR 72127-8725, or
doesn't just work for the first month, ufons@webtv.net
the first week, but it works two years,
three years from now, reliably,"
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National Security Agency affidavit
quite sketchy on UFO information
There is one question that persis-
tently bounces around the UFO com-
munity: If the government has nothing
to hide, then why is it keeping so many
UFO records under lock and key?
A document has surfaced that had
been stamped "Top Secret Umbra," the
code word for the highest, most sensi-
tive category of communications intel-
ligence, which touches on this topic, but
provides few answers.
The affidavit was originally filed by
the National Security Agency (NSA)
in a 1980 lawsuit to justify the with-
holding of records on UFOs.
The document is largely declassified
-with certain sections cut out, ostensi-
bly to protect employee names, and to
keep NSA technologies, skills, and for-
eign connections out of the limelight.
The document' official names is "In
Camera Affidavit of Eugene F. Yeates:
Citizens Against UFO Secrecy v. Na-
tional Security Agency, October 9,
1980."
Itwas released in redacted form in
response to a Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) request from researcher
Michael Ravnitzky and posted on the
website of theFederation of American
Scientists.
A read of the document yields In-
sight into how a super-secret agency
like the NSA became caught up. in the
UFO phenomenon.
Created In November, 1952, The
National Security AgencyICentral Se-
curity Service is America's cryptologic
organization.
It coordinates, directs, and performs
highly specialized activities to protect
U.S. government information systems,
and chums out foreign intelligence in-
formation.
Being a high-tech organization, the
NSA is a cutting-edge home for com-
munications and data processing.
The 1980 document explains that a
total of 239 documents related to UFOs
12
were located in NSA files, with 79 of
those documents originating with other
government agencies.
One document is an account by an
NSA official attending a UFO sympo-
sium. Many of these reports were pro-
duced between 1958 and 1979.
UFO topics
The titles of NSA-related UFO
documents that are noted in the declas-
sified document are intriguing, such as
"UFO Hypothesis and Survival Ques-
tions. "
Another title cited is "UFO's and the
Intelligence Community Blind Spot to
Surprise or Deceptive Data."
In this seven-page, undated, unoffi-
cial draft of a monograph authored by
an unnamed NSA employee, the author
reportedly points out what he consid-
ers to be "a serious shortcoming" in the
NSA's Communications Intelligence
(COMINT) interception and reporting
procedures.
That is "the inability to respond cor-
rectly to surprising information or de-
liberately deceptive data."
The author uses the UFO phenom-
enon to illustrate his belief that the in-
ability of the U.S. intelligence commu-
nity to process this type of unusual data
adversely affects U.S. intelligence gath-
ering capabilities.
Within the pages of the affidavit-
and between sections of excised copy-
it shows NSA intercepted in 1971 com-
munications between two aircraft and
a ground controller discussing a "phe-
nomena" in the sky, as well as radar
screen observations, labeling what was
viewed as "unidentifiable" objects.
Other intercepted and decrypted re-
ports of bright lights, luminous objects,
and unidentified aircraft-along with an
elongated ball of fire-scooting through
the skies over non-U.S. countries are
noted too.
Intercept operations
The 21-page affidavit claims that re-
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lease of documents for public scrutiny
would seriously damage the ability of
the United States to gather this vital in-
telligence information.
Furthermore, how the NSA works
with a network of foreign sources, or-
ganizations, and other governments to
secure intelligence data would be ad-
versely affected.
The majority of these records, ex-
plained NSA official Eugene F. Yeates
in the 1980 affidavit, were communi-
cations intelligence reports that "are the
product of intercept operations directed
against foreign government controlled
communications systems within their
temtorial boundaries."
According to Steven Aftergood, di-
rector of the Project on Government Se-
crecy at the Federation of American
Scientists in Washington, DC, the
newly declassified Yeates affidavit pro- -
vides new insight into the types of
records sought by UFO researchers that
have been withheld by NSA.
"Even with all of the deletions, one
can get a sense of the enormous scale-
and the apparent success+f the world-
wide electronic intercept operations
conducted by NSA at the height of the
Cold War," said Aftergood.
"Unfortunately it is not clear from
the affidavit how the withheld docu-
ments might have related to UFOs,"
Aftergood said. "There must have been
some connection in order for them to
be within the scope of the original FOIA
request, but I have no idea what it was."
But for those hungry to show that a
great government conspiracy is at work,
and that alien-driven UFOs routinely
cruise through our skies, this document
will not help much.
"The ~ i d a v idoes
t not discount the
UFO phenomenon," Aftergood con-
cluded, "it simply doesn't address it one
way or the other."
-Thanks to MSNBCISpaceCom,
Leonard David.
November 2006
 Mothrnan D e a t h Curse?
Mothman associate producer
h s a McIntosh dead at 42
By Loren Coleman
i Lisa McIntosh. associate producer
of the documentary "Mothman: Man.
Myth or Monster?'as part of the Mon-
sters of the UFO project. died July 25,
2006, of a rare cancer called multiple
myeloma.
Executive Producer Bany Conrad
explains that "strangely enough, she
began having fainting spells while in
Point Pleasant, WV. during our visit in
September. 2004. She was only 42
years old.
"Doctors said it was a textbook case.
extremely unusual that this type of can-
cer would affect someone as young as
she was. Only 1 out of approximately
200,000 people contract this disease."
McIntosh was involved with the field
production of the project, setting up in-
terviews with many eyewitnesses, con-
nected with these cases.
The Mothman segment shot during
the McIntosh-produced filmmaking in
September. 2004. contains several of
the original people who encountered the
creature in 1966.
The mystery death of people associ-
ated with Mothman films and investi-
gations is a topic that I have docu-
mented for some time, including
authoring an article about it and main-
taining the list online. Back in 2004, the
August issue of Fortean Times went
on sale with the first publication of the
article "The Mothman Death Curse."
July has not been a kind month for
3 those who have experienced these
strangely Mothman-related deaths.
After the publication of my article,
on July 30, 2004, Jennifer Barrett-
Pellington, 42, wife of The Mothman
Prophecies director Mark Pellington,
died after a never-identified "brief ill-
ness," in Los Angeles.
She was involved in costume design,
and received a "thank you" credit on
"The Mothrnan Prophecies."
On July 16,2005, Mark Chorvinsky,
November 2006
Executive producer Barry Conrad
(above, right) and hisproducerpart-
ner Lisa Mclntosh, who died July 25,
had been working on their documen-
tary project about the Flatwoods
(WV) Monstel; the Kellv (KY) Crea-
tures, and Mothman for more than
five years.
51, editor of Strange Magazine of
Rockville, MD, died after his relatively
quiet battle with cancer.
Three investigationsof Chorvinsky's
overlapped with Mothman mysteries-
his interest in the missing Thunderbird
photograph, his debunking of the
Owlman reports of Tony "Doc" Shiels,
and his interviews with people who
sighted what Chorvinsky called the
"~otomacMothman."
Case reports
Investigators and State Directors.
Please send a copy via email (Word)
or snail mail of your case reports di-
rectly to the Journal, including cop-
ies of any photos and drawings
(.jpg). Thanks.
MUFON UFO Journal
Object appears
to enter lake
By John W. Castle
. MUFON and MI MUFON Field
Investigator/State Section Director.
Sept. 3.2006, 11:30 PM, Whitefish
Bay, Paradise. MI (Upper Peninsula).
Cloud cover, sky overcast. Slight to no
breeze. Lake still. calm, level. View-
ing toward east.
While sitting in a lawn chair view-
ing the island in Whitefish Bay
(Ontario. Canada). I suddenly observed
a bright whitelgold steady light appear
below the cloud deck.
Watching through binoculars what I
initially thought was an aircraft. it be-
came apparent that I was lowering the
glasses to keep the object in view. as it
was not coming toward me, but rather -
was in a slow. controlled. steady verti-
cal decent toward the water.
As I watched through binoculars I
saw only a steady white-gold glow, no
shimmering, flaring, or alternating. No
red and green or strobing white navi- .
gation beacons, no sound, and the only
apparent movement was slowly and
steadilly downward.
As I watched the object get nearer
to the surface of the lake, its own glow
began to reflect from the water's sur-
face. The closer the object got to the
water the brighter its reflected light
became.
The object continued in this manner
until it and its reflection merged at the
surface of the water, suggesting the ob-
ject submerged into the lake. The light
was suddenly gone.
There was no more-light, no dark
object upon the water, no sound, and
no ripples in the like surface (though it
was at too great a distance to detect
small ripples).
I eliminated all possible mundane
and prosaic objects, such as fixed and
rotory wing aircraft, meteors, parachute
flares, etc.
I can only list this as an Unidentified
(or Unconventional) Flying Object.
Case open as "Unknown" at this time.
 F I E FILES
Note: These reports are presented in or-
der to keep readers informed of some of the
vast number of sightings being reported.
However, these cases have not been officially
investigated, unless noted.
Argentina bovine mutilations
La Pampa - The La Pampa Pro-
vincial Police and researchers from
CIUFOS-LA PAMPA report:
It was verified that in a rural farm
located in the vicinity of the "Padre
Buodo," located in the Jurisdiction of
General Acha. two black Aberdeen
Angus heifers and a calf of the same
type appeared to have been mutilated,
presenting signs of bodily damage simi-
lar to others detected recently.
Another Black Angus calf was found
dead and mutilated. A similar fate be-
fell a cow found near Utracan. It should
be noted that there has been an increase
in cattle mutilations in this province,
with specimens of the Aberdeen An-
gus breed being predominant. Thanks
to Raul Oscar Chaves, CIUFOS-LA
PAMPA.
UK triangle
Rotherham - "When I was 16, in
mid-November, 1987," says the wit-
ness, "I lived in a place at the center of
Rotherham called RUSH House, a
place for young kids without a home,
to get temporary shelter.
"At about 6 AM, a childhood friend
and I decided to go out early to see if
we could follow a milk man and 'bor-
row' a pint of milk each.
"In the comer of my eye, I saw some-
thing hovering, silently, about 20 feet
above the ground, higher than the traf-
fic lights, outside the railway club on
Doncaster Road.
"It was above us, so we could only
see the underside of it. It was about the
size of small articulated lorry [truck],
By George Filer
Director, MUFON Eastern Region
but the shape we saw was an isosceles
triangle.
"It had a glowing green lamp-like
beacon at each underside comer. The
thing just hovered above the traffic
lights for a few minutes and moved off
silently at a slow speed for ten seconds,
then climbed higher in the morning sky.
"Now 36
yegs old and liv-
ing in Northern
Ireland. I have a
science degree. a
good job, and a
lovely family.
"My life has
changed from
-that day because
~
I know we are
George - not alone in this
Universe."
New Zealand Aliens
Gisborne North Island -"In 1980,
at 3 PM," says the witness, "my wife
and I were walking along our country
road when we saw at a distance of 200
meters away two adults and two chil-
dren marching in perfect timing toward
us.
"Now they were only 30 meters in
front of us, still in a perfect horizontal
line holding our gaze. The oldest male
had what looked like Peruvian shoes, a
shawl, and a strange hat like a cash-
mere cap. They were all dressed in a
collage of international clothing.
"Their skin was olive, and their eyes
were the bluest dark blue. Their
were like slits, cat's.eyes only horizon-
tal. Their hair was dark, and the male
child appeared 10 years of age. The
female child was around 13 years old
and the adults were maybe in their late
20s.
"My wife was squeezing my hand
so hard she was cutting off my circula-
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tion. We moved to the center of the
road, and they kept on walking toward
us, but never strayed from their course,
or their unusual gait and movement.
"As they were right beside us, only
two meters to our left, they were star-
ing at us without turning their head or
changing their strange body behavior.
No one spoke.
"My wife was in fear, dragging and
quickening her pace. When they were
10 meters from us. walking in perfect
formation with their backs facing us,
they all turned at the exact same mo-
ment.
"I was getting strong thoughts that
they were in trouble. My wife started
pulling me up.the road, and only ten
seconds elapsed when I turned around
again and they were gone. I've always
known these beings were not part of
our world."
Canadian football
Aldergrove, British Columbia-The
witness reports, "I saw a UFO shaped
like a football hovering very low to the
ground on Sept. 11,2006, from 8: 15 to
8:30 PM. I got in my car and followed
it.
"It was very bright in thecenter, and
it went so slowly at first. When I lifted
my camera (digital) to take a picture, it
would not pick it up on the camera.
"The object picked up speed very
quickly and flew towards 264th Street
in Aldergrove, B.C. I saw it at 232nd
and 32nd Avenue. The lights - were
mostly clear, with a green one and red,
but the inside was very bright fluores:
cent."
Ancient building found in Syria
Damascus - Archaeologists claim
they have discovered an 11-millen-
nium-old building on the banks of the
Euphrates River in northern Syria.
November 2006
 "A remarkable discovery has just
been uncovered of a large circular
building dating back to 8.800 BC near
Ja'de," the leader of the French ar-
chaeological team that made the find
said.
The building. much larger than nor-
mal houses. "had a collective use, prob-
ably for all of the village or a group,"
Eric Coqueugniot said.
"A part of this community building
takes the shape of the head of a bull
and retains painted decorations. the old-
est known in the Middle East.
"The multi-colored geometrical
paintings that decorate the building will
be displayed at the museum of Aleppo.
in northern Syria.
"Many hunting weapons, domestic
tools ... were discovered at this level.
The majority of these tools are made of
flint, and very few are of obsidian [vol-
canic stone]."
Coqueugniot heads the team of the
National Center for Scientific Research
(CNRS), France's largest scientific es-
tablishment, which has led the work at
the site for the past 15 years.
Argentina paranormal activity
Toay - At 905 PM on Oct. 10,
2006, residents of the Quintas Sur Sec-
tor, located between Santa Rosa and
Toay, reported seeing a great light
which vanished unexpectedly.
According to witnesses chatting on
the sidewalk, they saw how "a lumi-
nous spot appear static for several min-
utes. It then increased its size gradu-
ally until it reached a dimension or vol-
ume ten times greater than the planet
Venus.
Another black Aberdeen Angus
cow-this time pregnant-was found
dead and mutilated at krn 17 of Pro-
vincial Route No. 152.
This was in the jurisdiction of Gen-
eral Acha, a locality some 110krn south
of Santa Rosa, La Pampa. Thanks to
Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology for the translation (c) 2006.
Puerto Rico girl terrified
Camuy - The Jollmnl of Hispanic
Ufology reports that at around 10:45
PM, a girl's mother, the fiancee of a
November 2006
This photo was taken by Bogdan ness emphasized:, "withsix centers,"
Gesicki over Garbno, Poland, on was also allegedly photographed by
May 29, 2004. It probably shows a G. Brozek in Libiaz, Poland, in April,
chance UFO. 2006.
A "distorted" UFO craftt, the wit- Source: www.ufotv.pl/
well-known paranormal researcher, The mother asked her to tell her story
told the seven-year-old girl to go to her several times, and her statement of the
grandparent's bathroom to brush her facts did not change.
teeth and go to bed. When Lucy Guzman interviewed the
She returned temfied and weeping, mother and child two weeks later, the
trembling with fear. She told her mother girl retold her experience calmly, and
that "the Chupacabra" was in her the version of the events was identical
grandparent's room and had tried to to the mother's.
seize her. Guzman inquired if any good or bad
After the mother calmed her down, odors had been present, and the girl
the girl said she was about to open the replied that "it neither smelled nor
bathroom door when a set of red eyes stank." Guzman asked if the room had
came in through the window and ma- grown hot or cold, and the girl replied
terialized into a hairy creature beside that the air conditioner had been-on at
her. the time, remaining at the same-level
Upon materialization, its estimated of coolness throughout."
height was 5 feet 6 inches tall, and it Translation (c) 2006, Scott Corrales,
was hairy like a lion with black fur. It Institute of Hispanic Ufology. Special
had a human-shaped mouth with dirty thanks to Lucy Guzman.
canine-like teeth, pointed ears like those
of a dog, hairy human hands with ca- Pennsylvania Object
nine-like claws, and human feet. It Doylestown -Arthur Sturts writes
growled, was unclothed, and tried to that at 9:40 PM he saw two starlike
grab her. UFOs "shoot across the sky through my
She started to run and scream. When Orion Observer 70 mm Altaz Tele-
she ran toward the bedroom's exit, the scope with a 25 rnm Kellner eyepiece
creature followed, making as if to grab at a very great speed near the Bootes
her. She shut the bedroom door behind Constellation.
her and ran to her mother. "I was facing east. The first UFO
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was slightly larger and moving slightly
slower than the second UFO.
"I saw four bright lights flying south-
east on the night of Dec. 11, 1998.
There was a strange sound to the craft's
engines. Then the sound of a loud jet
engine was heard. I saw a real bright
white light in the aft section of the craft.
"I could see four bright white lights
on the craft's fuselage as it flew over.
The lights were in a triangular shape,
but I could not see the fuselage."
Thanks to Arthur Sturts.
Three UFOs in Vermont
Manchester Center -"On Sept. 25,
2006, I went out at 8 5 0 PM," says the
witness, "and spotted two objects fly-
ing low, and then a third one got just
above the tree line, stopped, and then
slowly dropped to earth.
''Tonight these objects were all blink-
ing silver and blue, coming from the
east and heading west. This all took
about ten minutes. I am almost sure it
landed southwest of my home.
"I am very concerned about the one
that dropped out of sight. There was
no sound to be heard." Thanks to
MUFON CMS
Virginia object with red lights
Chester - "On Sept. 9, 2006, at
8:08 PM," says the witness, "I was
watching the sky when I suddenly no-
The Croatian UFO organization
reports an 1ltlidentij7edflving object
photographed over Split on the
Adriatic Sea on Aug. 15, 2006.
The photographer s a y , " I took a
photo of a UFO about 3 PM that was
tnoving slow atzd the11disappeared. "
The witness was looking at the sky
out the window o f her house when
she noticed the unidentified tnoving
object.
The white-silver object was de-
scending. "It disappeared behind
that building." she said. "I think it
landed into the sea."
Source: Ufogovertnnet Croatia,
By: Piotr Cielebia [NPN].
ticed a red light to my left. I watched it of these craft. Then they all moved into
for a few seconds and sure enough, it a single file, as maneuvering one on top
came into view. of the other then returning back to their
"It traveled pretty fast, and I also no- positions, stationary.
ticed it had a bottom egg shape to it. It 'Then they all took off north, south,
traveled at an angle of about 35 degrees. and west, and were gone. We were told
The lights were red as they slid from to go to class, and our lunch period was
side to side. The craft was saucer cut short."
shaped and high up, traveling at a pace
of over 45 MPH." Thanks to Another visit reported
,
UFOINFO. John, 15, says, "It was around 2:30
AM on Oct. 2,2006. I had finished a
Objects in Australia go to school call with a foreign friend of mine. Then
Melbourne School Grounds -The a weird sensation came over me, a feel-
witness reports: "I was a student at a ing I've only felt twice before.
Catholic school in Melbourne in 1964, "A brilliant flash of light blazed
and on this day all 300 of us school kids through the kitchen window. I knew im-
were cleaning up the school yard in si- mediately what it was.
lence. . "I go to the window and sure enough
"Before a bell sounded at 12:30 PM, the same UFO and four orbs that had
I looked up and saw three discs in tri- visited me before were floating silently
pod formation stationary above us in a over the trees, circling my home as be-
clear blue sky. The estimated height fore.
was about 8,000.feet. The UFO in the "The four orbs were following the 4
front of the formation moved to a 45- main object in an unusual drunken path.
degree angle. still stationary. and took Three minutes later it passed in view
off at such a speed you saw it for a nano and shined its light on the window. At
second. this point my two cats were VERY
"Twenty seconds later it came back upset and were growling and hissing
at a massive speed and stopped in its madly at the craft.
original position. The back two UFOs "It was then I heard something in my
maneuvered the exact same maneuver head. One word in clean English:
and took off, then returned and pulled 'Sorry.' The light shut off, and launched
up at their original positions. The Sun straight into the sky along with its orb
was intensifying the metallic structure companions."
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 Former FAA official confirms that UFO was seen
"For those people who say that if
these UFOs existed, they would some
day be on radar, and that there'd be pro-
fessionals who would see it, then I can
tell them that back in 1986 there were
, enough professional people that saw it,"
says John Callahan.
"I was the Division Chief of the Ac-
cidents and Investigations Branch of the
FAA in Washington, DC, for six years.
What I can tell you is what I've seen
with my own eyes.
"I've got a videotape. I've got the
voice tape. And I've got the reports that
were filed that will confirm what I've
been telling you.
"In 1986, a Japanese Airlines 747
STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION
flight was followed by a huge UFO for
31 minutes over the Alaskan skies. The
UFO also trailed a United Airlines flight
until the flight landed.
"There was visual c o n f i a t i o n as
well as airborne and ground-based ra-
dar confiation.
"This particular incident started
with a phone call from the people in
Alaska.
"I said, 'What's the problem?' He
said, 'Well, it's that UFO. The UFO
was bouncing around the 747 here.'
FAA Administrator Adm. Engen
told me to attend a briefing the next day
where the FBI, CIA, president
Reagan's Scientific Study Team, and
others attended.
"When we gave the presentation to
the Reagan staff, they had all those
people swear that this never happened.
I've been involved in a lot of cover-ups
with the FAA, but they never had me
swear it never happened.
"Capt. Terauchi, the pilot of the JAL
747, was featured on numerous radio
and TV programs and in People Maga-
zine.
"Within a few months of these events
he was grounded, apparently for his in-
discretion in reporting a UFO, even
though he was a senior captain with an
excellent flying record."
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 1i
II Dhvsical Traces
I By Ted Phillips
Last month I listed a number of cases
from my files which will eventually
become part of MUFON's Pandora
Project, and thus available to all re-
. .
searchers.
Following are some more of these
cases, in reverse chronological order,
picking up where I left off last month:
Circle and
substance
found
October,
2002. Liucura.
Chile. An area
was isolated by
the military after
the finding of a
30-meter circu-
lar area burned. i a- - -
along with trees.
'
Ed Phillips- &
A white sub-
stance was also found.
At equidistant points of the circle
were.four circles measuring 15 cm,
which were not scorched. They arc like
. four legs at the center of the circle. Ra-
diation was reportedly detected.
Back window lost
Oct. 18, 2002-Warrnambool, Aus-
tralia-Sue Sharples and her husband
were driving with their baby grandson
in a car seat in the back seat when they
saw a metallic object above the car.
They saw the rear window disappear
upwards as if it was levitated from the
car. Searches of the area failed to lo-
cate the window.
Experts from the firm of O'Brien
stated that the window could not have
been kicked out, and there was no sign
that it had been cut free. "The seal was
still attached, and there was no glass
splintering."
A landing in Greece
Aug. 8 & 10, 2002-Kozyaka,
Greece-Dozens of peasants saw an ob-
ject land in a farm field just outside the
village. The object was "disc-shaped
and 10 meters in diameter, with many
small portholes on it. The object landed
and left traces in the field."
Additional reports of field markings
found in a number of areas, "not like
crop circles."
Cell phone taken
Aug. 2.2002-Jacinto Arauz. Argen-
tina-Raul Dorado, 64. was in his field
5 km northeast of the village when he
"heard a sound on two occasions, like
a whirlwind. which drew my attention."
The third time he saw something he
described as "a green circle with three
legs" hovering over him. He fell to the
ground along with his shotgun. binocu-
lars, and cell phone.
The cell phone was taken from his
hand, and he could clearly see it being
sucked into the object, which was low
to the ground.
"It was a dim, green-colored circum-
ference; it had three legs and was barely
a meter away from me. When I saw it I
felt something like an electrical charge.
I fell to the ground on my knees, para-
lyzed, unable to do anything.
"I saw the cell phone rising and dis-
appearing. As the object disappeared
toward the east, I remained at the loca-
tion for an hour before being able to
rise and walk back to the car."
He was admitted to the local hospi-
tal, where he was cared for by Dr. Ana
Maria Lazaric. An alert police officer
who anived at the scene dialed the cell
phone number. The phone rang and was
answered. He could hear only static and
heavy breathing.
Woman knocked unconscious
Jan. 1,2002-Las Pailas, Argentina-
Faustine Nolasco, 57, a peasant
woman, had gone outside to get water
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and irrigate her garden when she was
blinded and then knocked down by a
powerful light. She knew nothing of
UFOs, as she had little contact with the
outside world.
"The sky was completely clear, and
it surprised me that a light as bright as
a lightning bolt blinded me and knocked
me down. It came so close to me that
by the time I reacted and got up off the
ground, my face hurt.
"I figure I was unconscious for about
an hour and a half outdoors. But I re-
member nothing of that time.
"When I checked the next day I saw
that a tree close to where I passed out
was completely burned. The same hap-
pened to my garden plot of zapallos and
cabbage: the plants were not burned but
wilted and dead."
Watches gain time
Dec. 5,2001-Teme Haute, IN-Wit-
ness opened a sliding door to take his
dog for a walk when he heard a
whooshing sound and saw a dark ob-
ject, like a "flattened air bubble rising
through water" move straight up less
than 100 feet away.
He found a curious area in the grass,
and the dog would not go near it. Two
watches gained one minute, 34 sec-
onds.
Trees & cattle affected
Nov. 25,2001-Corguinh0, Brazil-
Six villagers saw two brilliant objects
and an extremely bright flash. Farmer
Getulio Alves says the display burned
nearby trees and blinded his cattle.
Auto engine stopped
Nov. 7, 200 1-Nebraska-"I was
driving home from my parents along a
dirt road in farm land. I noticed in front
of my car an area which was distorted,
like heat waves coming off a hot sur-
face.
November 2006
 "The headlights began to flicker, the
radio failed, and the engine stopped. A
red glowing irregular-shaped object
was 20 feet ahead of my car. It was
hovering about 10 feet above the road.
w "It stayed at that spot for five min-
utes, then the color went from red to
platinum silver and it shot straight up
at incredible speed. The car began func-
tioning again, and I drove home.
"I told my husband what had hap-
pened, and he checked the car right
away and found spots on the hood
w h e r e the paint had bubbled as if
burned.
"The radio worked, but the CD
player and digital clock no longer work.
I continue to suffer headaches and spo-
radic shooting pains up my spine."
. .
Circular area
May, 2001-Etzikom, Canada-Coni-
cal bright light with tip pointing upwqp
hovered over a field for an hour. Circu-
lar area 9.3 feet in diameter with an
outer ring of 1.3 feet. Main central de-
pression is 8 feet in diameter, 3 holes
inside the circular area.
Security videos record UFO
April 29, 2001, night-Levice,
Slovakia-A brilliant circular object ap-
proached a nuclear facility from the
north, descending in altitude as it
passed over the old stacks (now shut
down) and over the main buildings lo-
cated at the center of the plant.
It hovered 20 feet above the active
stacks for 10 minutes before ascend-
ing vertically.
All security video units were acti-
vated on approach, and taped the ob-
ject from many locations within the fa-
c cility.
One tape was shown one time on
national television. I was in country at
I
the time and called the director to try to
obtain a copy, but all copies had been
taken by the military. I went immedi-
ately to Levice and located many wit-
nesses.
2000 a busy year
The year 2000 provided 27 new
tracecases, which is much more pro-
November 2006
ductive than the six years following. He describes it as a sphere 2 feet in .
These are the significant events: diameter, 1 to 1.5 feet thick with a 4 to
A burning sensation 6 inch band of orange-red light around
Oct. 3 1,20OWygnet, OH-Several the middle.
witnesses observed an egg-shaped de- It ascended slowly, increased speed,
vice with brilliant external lights. One and moved away rapidly. A small area
witness in a car experienced burning of depressed grass was found at the
sensations and a persistent skin rash landing site. ,
during and after the event.
Missouri ring
A circular nest May, 2000-Ironton, MO-Elderly
Oct. 25, 2000-Sao Jaoa da Boa lady observes three bright objects fly-
Vista, Brazil-Witnesses observed a sil- ing low over her farm. One dives to-
very object on the ground, dogs reacted, ward ground, and a 7.9 meter ring
object ascended, and a circular "nest" found.
was found at the spot.
Lights go out
Landing with traces April 24,2000-Tucapel, Chile-Jose
Aug. 27,2000-Dera, Kenya-Object Prieto and four others saw a brilliant
flying over Fort MUNOand Rakhi Gaaj, blue light which filled the room. The.
landing with traces; no details. house lights went out, and when they
went outside they found a triangular
A burned circle ground mark with a base of one meter
Aug. 12,2000-Woodborough Hill, and each side 20 meters.
England-Multiple witnesses observed
a small orange sphere which discharged Y -shaped depression
red and white bursts of light. A circu- March 3, 2000-Tanah Merah,
lar burned area was found; no addi- Kelantan-Multiple witnesses saw large
tional details. objects emitting rays of light on the
ground 100 meters away. They were
Object sets off car alarm seen for several minutes under good
July 23, 2000-Ashtabula, OH- weather conditions.
Three witnesses, ages 60 to 70, were A Y -shaped depression 15 meters x
driving a new Cadillac when the car 5 meters was found. Near the depres-
was surrounded by small lights. The sion was a 3-meter deep hollow, and
lights followed the vehicle down the three holes 1 meter in diameter and 1
highway at high speed for 40 miles. meter apart.
The car's alarm system went off .and
on, the radio was reset, and the clock Witness suffers skin rash
lost time. A damp, sticky residue Jan. 24,2000-Glace Bay, Canada-
formed on the windshield. Excellent witness. A young man was
walking to work when a small vertical
Hole with polished walls cone-shaped object passed him at a dis-
June 24, 2000-~uzhno~e, Russia- tance of 1 meter.
Farmers reported lights in the fields, He felt a cold sensation as it was near
and found four 5-to-20-meter circles him. The device, which was almost
and a 20 cm deep cylindrical hole with touching the ground, made two turns
polished walls at the center of the 20 and disappeared into the distance. The
meter site. object was 8 feet tall, 5 feet wide at the
base, and 1.5 feet wide at the top sec-
Canadian sphere tion.
May 18, 2000-Sorrento, Canada- It was dark with no surface details
Witness walking dog observes small visible. The witness suffered severe
orange-red glow on the ground 100 skin rash and sores immediately after
meters away. the event.
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The puzzle of Purcell
While working on my paper "Flying
Saucers and Physics" to be presented
at Film Producer Paul Kimball's New
Frontiers Symposium in Halifax, Nova
Scotia on Oct. 13, I decided to briefly
describe several completely false past
conclusions reached by noted astrono-
mers looking into flight in a supposedly
scientific fashion.
My point was to assure people that
card carrying scientists have often been
woefully in error when stepping into
areas where they know nothing.
I wanted to include the false claim
by Dr. Simon Newcomb, one of the top
astronomers in the 19" and early 20Lh
century.
In October, 1903, he published a
paper showing man could fly only with
the help of a.balloon.This was two
months before the Wright Brothers'
first flight.
New Zealand astronomer Alex-
ander William Bickerton in 1926 gave
a paper at a meeting of the British As-
sociation for the Advancement of Sci-
ence showing it would be impossible
to put anythmg in orbit around the earth
because our best explosive had only 11
10 as much energy per pound as a
pound of orbital payload required.
It turns out propellant combinations
such as hydrogen and oxygen have
three times as much energy per pound
as TNT, and also there is no need to
put the propellant in orbit-only the pay-
load.
My favorite has always been a Ca-
nadian, Dr. John William Campbell,
who in 1941 wrote a long "scientific"
paper in which he computed the re-
quired initial launch weight of a rocket
able to get a man to the moon and back
as a million million tons.
He was too high by a factor of 300
million because he, as with Newcombe
and Bickerton, made a host of frankly
By Stanton T. Friedman
stupid assumptions about the "how"
details, such as a single stage rocket
having much too low an exhaust veloc-
ity, liAted to 1G acceleration, used as
a retro rocket to slow it down on re-
turn, and not using any cosmic freeload-
ing.
When it comes to space flight, "The
devil is certainly in the details."
I also
wanted to in-
clude a com-
ment about
an astrono-
mer, Dr. Neil
deGrasse
Tyson, direc-
tor of the
Hayden
Planetarium.
at New
Stan Friedman York's Ameri-
can Museum
of Natural History, claiming that star
travel was impossible because our fast-
est spacecraft, Voyager, would take
70,000 years to get to the nearest star.
He made this statement on the Peter
Jennings ABC-TV "documentary" fi-
asco of Feb. 24,2005. Of course it has
no propulsion system, and has been ba-
sically coasting since it left Earth.
Finally, I decided I should reread the
article by Nobel Prize winning physi-
cist Dr. Edward Mills Purcell.
He looked at a relativistic trip to a
star only 12 light years away using
matter anti-matterannihilation and con-
cluded "all this stuff about traveling
around the universe in spacesuits+x-
cept for local exploration which I have
not discussed-belongs back where it
came from on the cereal box."
There is no question that Purcell
(1912-1997) had a very impressive
background indeed. He earned a PhD
in physics from Harvard in 1938, and
worked at the MIT Radiation Lab in
the early 1940son electronics and com-
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munications research, undoubtedly
classified.
He won a Nobel Prize in Physics as
a professor at Harvard back in 1952
with Dr. Ernest Bloch for work on new
methods for nuclear magnetic precision
measurements.
This was a way to detect the ex-
tremely weak magnetism of the atomic
nucleus.
He and a graduate student, Harold
I. Ewen, also were the first to detect
electromagnetic waves from clouds of
hydrogen in space at a frequency of
1420 megacycles (wavelength of
2 1cm).
This has become the basis for most
SET1 searches. There are several rea-
sons. First of all, hydrogen is by far the
most abundant substance in the uni-
verse, and all civilizations would be
aware of that fact.
Secondly, at this frequency the at-
mosphere of Earth is relatively trans-
parent and will, practically speaking,
not absorb radio waves having this fre-
quency.
Of course, one might expect that
most planet-to-planet communicationin
an advanced civilization would take
place from outwardly broadcasting sat-
ellites above the planets rather than on
them.
Think how quickly we are moving
towards broadcasting to satellites and
then having the satellites broadcast
down to receivers on earth.
A satellite at the proper altitude can
be on-line continuously with another
similar device in other solar systems.
Purcell's 23-page paper, "Radio-as-
tronomy and Communication Through
Space," was first presented at
Brookhaven National Laboratory on
Long Island in 1960.
The written version is one of 32 pa-
pers in a rather fascinating, but frus-
trating, 320-page book, "Interstellar
Communication:The Search for Extra-
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 terrestrial Life," put together by Alistair
G.W.Cameron and published in 1963
by W.A.Benjamin Inc. of New York
and Amsterdam.
It is basically an anthology, and has
two papers by Frank Drake and many
others by SET1 specialists. None deal
with UFOs, of course.
Only about five pages of Purcell's
paper deal with interstellar travel. As
might be expected, it is very simplis-
tic, with little concern with the "How"
details.
He assumes matter antimatter anni-
hilation at 100% efficiency, a maximum
velocity of only 98c (c is the speed of
light), a target star 12 light years away,
and acceleration at 1G half way out and
deceleration by 1G the second half of
the tripand the repeat of the process
in reverse to come home.
, The fraction of the total huge initial
launch weight available for payload is
very very small, hence the cereal box
comment.
He acknowledges that indeed time
slows down for things moving at close
to c, and that storing anti-matter which
reacts immediately with matter, is very
difficult.
He assumes the entire mass of the
fuel would be launched from Earth,
rather than refueling at the target star
or some intermediate propellant refu-
eling station.
He ignores the best nuclear fusion
reactions, such as deuterium-Helium 3
which provides five times as much en-
ergy per reaction as the hydrogen-hy-
drogen reaction he assumes, and pro-
vides charged particles which can be
accelerated. He also ignores cosmic
freeloading such as we use for all our
deep space probes.
4.
Of particular importance is the fact
that at 1G it takes only a year to get
close to the speed of light, and that once
one achieves a cruising speed of say
9999c one would coast rather than keep
accelerating.
The benefits of Einsteinian time
slowing down get to be very much more
important at very close to c. A 747 ac-
celerates to cruise speed, then cruises,
rather than wasting energy to continue
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Freeman Dyson, who worked on the
Orion deep space propulsion system
(nuclear weapons exploded near the
back of a rocket to push it forward),
does have a six-page paper, "Gravita-
tional Machines."
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In this paper he notes the use of thi
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gravitationalfield of one star to provide
acceleration to an object sent from a
nearby star. He claims that a binary pair
of white dwarf stars could accelerate a
spaceship by 10,000 Gs without any
internal problems for the crew and craft.
He doesn't talk about the possibility
of using planets' gravitational fields to
accelerate spacecraft coming from an-
other planet as we do.
A German scientist, Sebastian von
Hoerner (in 1960 working with Frank
Drake at Green Bank" radio obser-
" and presumably very knowledgeable
vatory in West Virginia), also had a
paper in the book, "The General Lim-
its of Space Travel." -
He has more equations than does
Purcell, but again no details about spe-
cific flight profiles such as an engineer
would normally review. He, too, comes
up negative. I don't think he was as far
off as Dr. Campbell.
There is no indication that I could
find in the book of near-future trips to
the Moon, of the landing of probes on
Mars, and traipsing out past Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune etc.
There is mention of the possible use
of lasers for interstellar communication.
I noted with interest that at one time
Purcell had been president of the
American Physical Society, and had
also been elected to the National Acad-
emy of Sciences and had been awarded
the National Medal of Science.
In digging deeper, I found that he had
also been a member of the Science Ad-
visory Committee of President
Eisenhower from Nov. 22, 1957, (less
than two months after the launch of
Sputnik) to Dec. 31, 1960, and also
served under President Kennedy and
President Johnson.
There were several other Nobelists
on the PSAC membership list of 17,
and also Majestic 12 member Dr.
Detlev Bronk.
I checked with the Eisenhower Li-
brary, and they have a lot of documents
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dealing with Purcell and these activi-
ties. It turns out he was also chairman
of the Space Science and Technology
Panel. .
Purcell attended numerous meetings
and is mentioned in many documents.
He is listed as making presentations on
space science at several panel meetings.
PSAC records are in six boxes and
total 4,800 pages. Purcell is listed in
the President's Appointment Books
card index as having met five times with
the President.
These papers will be the target of my
research during my next visit to the
Eisenhower Library.
Purcell's calculations about interstel-
lar travel seem very simplistic for some-
body with a proven record of creativity
about space science and technology.
Could he have been playing a de-
bunking role similar to that of another
well known Harvard professor, Dr.
Donald Menzel?
Turns out that, according to the
Eisenhower Library archivist, Purcell
did indeed have a TOP SECRET clear-
ance.
I realize some will consider this
thought as a pure conspiracy theory. He
certainly had no aversion to technical
work for the government.
But with his past history of classi-
fied government research, his creative
energy, and his active participation in
high level government advisory com-
mittees, he would seem an excellent
prospect for Majestic 12 research, and
certainly would have been familiar with
Menzel.
Having a top scientist, with a Nobel
Prize at that, speak out against the no-
tion of interstellar travel would have
been an excellent way to tamp down
discussion about UFOs amongst other
scientists.
Menzel's negative books about
UFOs had a similar effect on many sci-
entists, both in the USA and in Russia,
as his first debunking book was trans-
lated into Russian.
I expect to learn a lot more about
Purcell in the next few months.
fsphys@rogers.com
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December 2006
Moon phases:
Full Moon: Dec. 5
Last Quarter: Dec. 12
New Moon: Dec. 20
First Quarter: Dec. 27
Bright planets (evening sky)
Venus (magnitude -3.8): Moving
from Ophiuchus into Sagittarius. For
northern and southern hemisphere ob-
servers, Venus will slowly emerge in
the southwest evening twilight during
the month, but will remain very low to
the horizon.
Mars (magnitude 1.6 to 1S): Mov-
ing from Libra through Scorpius into
Ophiuchus. For northern and southern
hemisphere observers, Mars will
emerge slowly in the east-southeast
morning twilight sky in the second half
of the month.
By month's end, Mars will rise about
1.5 hours before the Sun.
Bright planets (morning sky
Mercury (magnitude -0.6 to -0.7):
Moving from Libra through Ophiuchus
into Sagittarius. For northern and south-
ern hemisphere observers, Mercury
will continue to be easily observable
until it becomes lost in the glare of the
Sun in the east-southeast by about
midmonth.
Jupiter (magnitude -1.7): In Virgo.
For northern hemisphere observers, Ju-
piter will emerge in the twilight dawn
during the month. By month's end, Ju-
piter will be very low in the southeast
at the beginning of morning twilight.
For less favored southern hemi-
sphere observers, Jupiter will slowly
emerge in the east-southeast dawn twi-
light in the-second half of the month.
Saturn,(magnitude 0.4 to 0.3): In
Leo. For northern hemisphere observ-
ers, Saturn will rise near 9 PM in the
east-northeast, and will stand about 55
degrees high in the southwest at the be-
Planetary Conjunction: before sun-
rise on Dec. 10, 2006. This will be the
closest grouping of three naked-eye
planets during the period 1980-2050.
All three planets will bnrelyfit within
a 1 -degree circle. Birrocltlars may be
necessary.
ginning of morning twilight.
For southern hemisphere observers, 04:OO UTC on the 14th (6:40 PM EST,
Saturn will rise before 11 PM in the 5:40 CST, 4:40 MST, and 3:40 PM
east-northeast, and will stand about 45 PST on the 13th). Unfortunately the
degrees high in the north-northeast at Moon will be just past its last quarter
the beginning of morning twilight. phase and will not rise until about 12:30
AM.
Other celestial phenomena Ursids: The Ursids peak on Dec. 221
Dec. 22: Winter Solstice marks the 23 and have a peak hourly rate of 10 or
first day of winter for Earth's Northern so, but in some years the hourly peak
Hemisphere, and first day of summer has risen as high as 50.
for the Southern Hemisphere). The Moon will not be a problem this
Meteor showers: year, as it will be just past the new
Geminids:The annual Geminid me- Moon phase.
teor shower will peak on the night of Conjunctions and occultations:
Dec. 13/14. This shower is one of the Dec. 9: Mercury 1.0 degrees north
better showers, since as many as 100 of Mars.
meteors per hour may be seen. Dec. 10: Saturn 1.2 degrees south
While this certainly doesn't rival the of the Moon.
Leonids in recent years, this is still a Dec. 10: Mercury 1.2 degrees
- north
very high rate for a regular meteor of Jupiter.
shower.
This is an unusual shower in that the
source of the shower is not believed to
be a comet, but rather from an object
known as 3200 Phaethon. This object
is currently classified as an asteroid, but
some scientists believe that it might be
an extinct comet with a thick crust of
interplanetary dust.
Another thing that makes the
Geminids unusual is that one doesn't
have to wait until after midnight to catch
this shower. The radiant rises early, and
meteors can be seen around 10 PM lo-
cal time, but the best view will still be
after midnight local time.
This shower also boasts a broad
maximum, lasting nearly one whole
day, so no matter where you live, you
starid a decent chance of catching sight
of some Geminids.
The actual peak will occur around
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